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Walking through Harvard Yard after an English section last fall, another student and I began speculating as to whether any writer had convincingly portrayed the experience of falling in love. Tolstoy developed it too suddenly and Austen privileged convention over emotion. And for Nabokov, love was a clinical affair; a warm body lain on ice. Entomologist, chess-player, master of three languages, and arguably the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century, the ever-meticulous Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov could reach sublime artistic heights, my interlocutor admitted—but who would want to inhabit such chilly...
Further place-holders were co-captain Alexandra Clarke, who finished third in the 1000-yard freestyle, junior Chrisine Kaufmann, who placed second in the 500-yard freestyle, and sophomore Meghan Leddy, who was runner up in the 200-yard backstroke...
Another standout for the Harvard squad was junior Kate Mills, who had three top-three finishes in the 200-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, and 200-yard individual medley...
...Tigers were propelled by co-captain Alicia Aemisseger, a 10-time All-American. Individually, Aemisseger took the 200-yard butterfly in pool-record time and won the 1000-yard freestyle in 9:37.27—18 seconds ahead of runner-up Aislinn Smalling...
Aemissiger also touched the wall first in the 500-yard freestyle, besting runner-up Kaufmann by almost 14 seconds...